A vintage photo of the Beck-Hildebrand Mill, built in 1907, showing actual operating features from 1924. Ray Stinchcomb is the Beck-Hildebrand Mill Museum Association chairman. Check the website noted above the photo for more information concerning the saving, rebuilding, and restoration of a grand symbol of the Cherokee Nation heritage.

The arched opening on the left side is the access for logs into the sawmill portion of the mill. See also this website: http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/hh:@field(DOCID+@lit(OK0010))

Gristmill stones in center (vertical stand with handle to left of stones adjusts space between stones, thus controlling the fineness of flour. Stone crane at right used to lift stones for dressing). Other equipment not identified. Note stairs at left rear. Picture public domain from the Library of Congress-Historic Architectural Building Survey from the 1930's.

Saw mill at ground level. East-southeast elevation. From the Library of Congress-HABS, 1930's.

Survey number HABS OK-29 Building/structure dates: 1892 initial construction Significance: Hildebrand's Mill, turn of the century successor to the original 1845 mill, is one of the few remaining in Oklahoma which were provided for by treaty with the United States. As part of the compensation for the removal of 1839 and earlier removals from the East, mills came under the list of improvements which were due compensation. The site of numerous dramatic episodes of local history, the structure is fully equipped and operable as both saw- and grist-mill, some of the equipment dating back to the first mill.